Lady Broncs do splits in league action

Kern Valley Sun File Photo:Sam Alvarez, No. 3 of the varsity Lady Broncs, hustles to first base in a recent home game.

By Ray ConnerSports Editor

It was one good, one bad in recent High Desert League action for the varsity Lady Broncs softball squad.

Traveling to Cal City on April 25, Kern Valley scored plenty of runs as they took the game 22-2. Three days later, they gave up 18 and managed to score 11 in a loss to Bishop.

In the Cal City game, eight of the nine players from Kern Valley recorded at least one hit. As a team, they banged out 17, including three home runs. They also belted a triple and two doubles.
The only inning Kern Valley failed to score was the second.

They opened quickly and took a 2-0 lead after one. In the third, the Lady Broncs scored five times and followed that with a 15-run fourth. They batted around the order twice. They collected 10 hits and took advantage of six errors. Two balls left the yard as Kern Valley smacked a pair of home runs in the run scoring explosion. Sam Alvarez and Lexi Baker cracked the home runs for Kern Valley.

The Lady Ravens scored both of their runs late in the bottom of the fifth.